SANDY BAY TOWNSHIP -- Officials say two trucks have been removed from a state highway after bringing traffic to a standstill for more than 15 hours near the U.S.-Canada border in western Maine.

Robert Higgins of the Somerset County Emergency Management Agency said a logging truck jackknifed on Route 201 about a dozen miles south of the border station in Sandy Bay Township late Sunday. Then a Maine Department of Transportation plow truck went off the road while attempting to get around the logging truck.

Higgins said the two trucks ended up blocking the road, preventing traffic from entering or leaving the country at the Sandy Bay station.
Ted Woo of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said both trucks were removed from the road by late this afternoon, and that traffic would be flowing again after snow was plowed from the highway.

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JACKMAN - Motorists on either side of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry near Jackman could not get through late Sunday night and this morning, as workers tried to get two big trucks off the road.

Robert Higgins, the Somerset County Emergency Management Association director, said that a tractor-trailer hauling logs jackknified and went off the road at 11 p.m., about 12 miles south of the crossing. When the driver of a state Department of Transportation plow truck tried to plow around the fallen truck at 4 a.m. today, it too went off the road, Higgins said.

Plow trucks were unable to clear the road, so no one could get into or out of the country, Higgins said.

Higgins said that tow truck workers managed to get the DOT truck off the road at 11 a.m., but the log truck remained. Officials at the port of entry were hoping that the road might be clear by early afternoon, Higgins said.